Is giving girls the right to education enough to define women’s empowerment? Or giving reserved seats in parliament sufficient to help them raise their voice for the country?
Women empowerment is defined as a process of enabling every woman in the country to live a quality standard of life by improving the conditions for education, awareness, literacy, and training. But this definition lacks the real-world problem that we as girls face every day like, going alone outside at night and wearing short dresses is still considered unethical for girls. It is believed in some parts of the country that doing the job is the second essential thing for women to hold positions and learn cooking and household errands still stand first. Even after reaching on top positions of the world, it is considered a duty of women to take care of their household and family more than the men of the family. So the empowerment we talk about is just partial and it will require a great deal to change the mindset of more than half the population to the country.
Economically independence is one thing, which many girls fight to attain, marriage is still considered the best alternative after a woman fails in perfectly setting up her career. We see many male candidates raising their voice for feminism but the real question is whether they know what real feminism stands for or it just became a trend to follow?
Barriers in this process are explained by a condition where women are put in a position where they need to make the decision of whether to maintain in the workforce or have children, which has led to the debate over maternity leave in many other countries in the world. A desk job is preferred over a physical one arguing that women lack the physical structure to do heavy tasks. Even today girls dreaming of a technical career like engineering are made to think twice. Being a pilot for going in a field that is male dominant is the most difficult and challenging job for women. Everyone says that girls should dream big but that big requires big sacrifices in terms of almost everything.
Way ahead-
women empowerment indeed is an ongoing process and sometimes it lacks its significance but it is also true that it had made the political position of women much better than in ancient times not only it had helped women to attain knowledge of their rights but also have given many opportunities in the educational sector to prove their abilities. The process had given courage to many women to come forward and broke the stereotype thinking. This had made them come up with their problems as well as effective solutions. History had witnessed the strength and power of women, what all needed is to give them a platform in an unbiased way and let them show their qualities in their creative way.
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